The court dismissed a putative class action filed under the Class Action Fairness Act on its own initiative, ruling that minimal diversity was missing because both the named plaintiff and the defendant were California citizens, and the complaint’s bare conclusion that more than $5 million was
After the defendant’s counsel ultimately confirmed that the company had received the complaint on August 1, 2025, the court ruled the September 25, 2025 notice of removal was filed weeks past the 30-day deadline and remanded the case to state court, declining to award sanctions because there w
In a Section 1983 wrongful-death action brought by the parents of a man fatally shot by San Diego police officers — including allegations that officers continued to fire shots into the decedent’s body after he was already incapacitated — the court granted in part and denied in part the city
After defendants ignored a court order to pay an $11,400 attorney-fee award, the magistrate judge certified facts to the district judge supporting civil contempt and recommended a coercive per-diem fine, but recommended denying the plaintiff’s request for additional fees on the contempt motion
In a personal-injury suit by a consumer who lacerated her hand when a Mumm Napa Valley sparkling wine bottle exploded after she used a corkscrew to remove a stuck cork, the court granted summary judgment on the design-defect and negligent-storage claims but allowed the failure-to-warn claims to proc
The court conditionally certified a federal Fair Labor Standards Act collective action by City of San Diego firefighters who claim the City miscalculated their overtime by leaving a $500 paramedic-certification bonus out of their regular rate of pay, and approved a joint notification plan with adjus
The court dismissed without prejudice an immigration habeas petition that had been signed by the detainee’s long-term partner as ‘next friend,’ ruling that even if the partner had a basis for next-friend standing under Whitmore v. Arkansas, she could not represent the detainee whil
The court issued a limited stay of a federal misclassification class action against Assurance IQ and Prudential pending a preliminary settlement approval ruling in an earlier-filed and substantially similar state-court class action whose proposed class includes the federal plaintiff.
After previously certifying a class of California bus driver/operator employees of Transdev for wage-and-hour claims, the court reversed course and decertified the class in light of multiple overlapping earlier-filed state-court class actions, then stayed the case to allow those proceedings to advan
The court dismissed without leave to amend a §1983 suit against a senior deputy clerk of the California Court of Appeal who allegedly refused filings, yelled, and issued unauthorized orders, ruling that quasi-judicial immunity bars damages claims and that §1983 itself bars injunctive relief against
The court denied without prejudice an Armenian asylum-seeker’s habeas petition challenging his post-removal-order detention while ICE seeks a third country to receive him, ruling that he had been detained less than six months and was still within Zadvydas’s presumptively reasonable remov
In an APA challenge to ICE’s withdrawal of the school’s certification to enroll foreign students, the magistrate judge refused to compel the agency to add documents to the administrative record or to allow a deposition of the deciding official, ruling that the school’s claims of mi
The court applied the six-factor Banda test and concluded that seven months of mandatory detention of a Russian asylum-seeker who had been found to have a credible fear of persecution did not yet violate due process or require a bond hearing.
After granting the plaintiff’s request to proceed without paying the filing fee, the court dismissed her five-sentence complaint alleging RICO and due-process violations against a single defendant for failure to state a plausible claim and noted serious doubts about whether venue was proper in
The court denied remand in a Song-Beverly Act/Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act lemon-law case against General Motors over a 2018 GMC Yukon, ruling that GM’s removal was timely because the federal MMWA claim alone did not affirmatively show the amount in controversy and pre-litigation repair records
On the second screening of an 80-year-old veteran’s pro se complaint against VA officials and his primary-care doctor, the court dismissed his amended due-process, civil-rights conspiracy, federal elder-abuse, and Older Americans Act claims with prejudice and granted limited leave to amend onl
The court dismissed without prejudice a Haitian detainee’s habeas due-process claim for failure to exhaust appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals after he received four individualized custody reviews from immigration judges, and rejected his Zadvydas challenge because he has no final remo
After IFP screening of an amended complaint by a state prisoner experiencing a mental-health crisis, the court allowed his Eighth Amendment excessive-force claim to proceed against two correctional officers who allegedly held him against a hot metal plate causing severe burns, but dismissed his deli
In a putative class action alleging that SD Bullion’s ‘The Lowest Price. Period.’ advertising for precious-metal coins was false because competitors charged less, the court trimmed several theories at the motion-to-dismiss stage but allowed the consumer’s core false-advertisi
The court denied a detainee plaintiff’s motion to proceed without paying the filing fee under the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s three-strikes rule and dismissed the complaint, citing more than 600 prior civil filings nationwide and dozens of prior dismissals for frivolousness or failure
The court denied a motion to dismiss filed by Wooden Bay (doing business as Bronxton) in a trademark-infringement case brought by hat-and-accessories brand Brixton, ruling that the complaint adequately alleged likelihood of confusion based on shared shield-design logo, similar font, overlapping clot
The court remanded a Private Attorneys General Act case against Southwest Airlines to state court because the airline failed to plausibly show more than $75,000 was at stake when the plaintiff’s individual share of attorney’s fees and PAGA penalties were properly calculated.
The court dismissed financial-elder-abuse and Electronic Funds Transfer Act claims by a Social Security beneficiary against Comerica Bank and the operator of the Direct Express debit-card program after $6,815 in fraudulent transactions, ruling that the complaint did not allege the bank had actual kn
The court granted habeas relief and ordered immediate release of a Cuban national who had been paroled into the United States and then re-detained at a master calendar hearing without the written notice of parole termination required by 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e)(5) or any opportunity to be heard.